Does Anyone Know What the Conditions to Trigger Hellfire Cloak's Explosive Hellfire Power?

[Rising Tempo]

The skill description of Hellfire Cloak is "Grants hellfire resistance and confers explosive hellfire power to your attacks after fulfilling certain conditions." What exactly are the conditions to get this explosive hellfire power mentioned in the skill description to trigger?

[Doresh]

It triggers when a large monster becomes enraged

[FafnirChaos]

Use it with embolden, defiance, and agitator.

[CookedMeat]

There are two different skill descriptions. 1 is a general description at the left panel, another one is detailed description at the right panel that tells you each skill level's effects. You need to combine descriptions from both sides to better understand what the skill is for.

[Rising Tempo]

Should I just go for level 2 of Hellfire Cloak? At level 2, it increases the damage of the hellfire blasts that I would be dealing to the enraged monster. Being inflicted with the hellfire blight at level 3 and 4 doesn't interest me. I know you can drop the hellfire blight and if it damages a large monster, they get downed the first time, but I really don't care for it.

[CookedMeat]

The only reason people uses Hellfire Cloak is actually for the opening it can create from downing the monster. The damage from hellfire is actually extremely small compared to what player could do during an opening.

Without Level 3/4, you can only get inflicted with hellfire blight by only a very very very few monster, not more than 4 IIRC. So it is basically pointless to have it at Level 2. If you want that tiny extra damage you might as well use some barrel Gs.